Where did you buy your first gun?

Ruger 10/22 with pistol grip and folding stock from MVP sports.

I've since sold it. Most guns I've sold I could not care less, but it's one of three that I would like back.
 
A "sporterised" M91 Carcano for $7.77 at J.M. Fields in Salem, MA. 1962. I was 16 at the time. The sales clerk recorded my name and address on a paper bag. Ammo was $3.00 for 18 rounds of 6.5mm Italian surplus. I had it for a month before my father found it. The conversation went something like this: Dad "Why didn't you tell me about this? Did you think I wouldn't let you keep it?" Me "Uh huh." Dad "How long have you had it?" Me "About a month." Dad "Then I guess it's too late to bring it back. When are we going to shoot it?" After that I bought whatever I could afford. I had a lot of fun with it but I traded it later as my interests changed.
Charlie
 
tele_mark said:
I'm not sure of the exact spot or if it's still there, but it was a gun shop in Framingham, on Rt. 30 I think, in 1981, when I turned 18. A Vietnam vet I worked with got me into shooting,
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Was that Bay State Arms?

stoneypete said:
Ruger 10/22 with pistol grip and folding stock from MVP sports.

I've since sold it. Most guns I've sold I could not care less, but it's one of three that I would like back.
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Yeah, a lot of people - including the Dwarven1 - have made that mistake!

However... stay tuned in the April (or maybe May) New Acquisitions thread... I may have something nice to show.
 
ephemeratta said:
A Marlin Model 60 from a friend of mine's father when I was a yungin' living in CT. Long since has been sold. [frown]
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I have a Marlin Mod. 60. Nice rifle. Got it as part of a package deal from a guy who was down on his luck with a restraining order. I took him to the PD in Montague (I seem to recall) and had to sign for his guns, which also included a Mossberg 500A and a Winchester Mod. 140 20ga. He sold me the lot right there on the spot for about two-hunnerd.

But my first gun buy .... I forget if it was the venerable Remington 11-48, which I bought out of the trunk of a guy's car at work, or the Beretta .380 pistol I bought from a MSP acquaintance of mine way back when. The pistol was defective. Kept throwing out some wacky c-clip (or e-clip ... I forget) and I ended up selling it in the neighborhood to a Lebanese FFL.
 
This has been interesting to read all this "history"!!

As for me - still a newbie...

A Taurus PT-111 Pro. Got it where I have purchased 2 more hand guns - Shoot Straight, Tampa.
 
ruger P85 9mm (used-old then) at McElhinnys in waltham MA. Wow thats over 14 years ago and that thing is still going strong.

My dad gave me a ruger mkII for my high school graduation. 1992
 
Marlin model 60 at K-Mart ~25 years ago. Actually bought it as a gift for a friend, his wife gave it back to me a couple years ago after they split up.

Just started shooting again last year after 20+ years and bought a M&P 40 at Four Seasons, not the best choice for a first handgun.
 
Bought with my father, but it was mine: a Remington .22 rifle (don't remember the model) at Stanley Andrews Sporting Goods in San Diego, CA in 1970. A few days later we picked up a High Standard Double-Nine (W-104) .22 with stag grips there too. I was 9 or 10 years old at the time. I still have the High Standard.
 
A Colt 1911 in 1969 at a pawn shop in KilleenTexas, gave them a large Sony 8 track stereo and a bunch of 8 track tapes for it.

The stereo was worth alot more than the Colt but it was so big I couldn't carry it home..
 
My first rifle was bought in 1999 at Carters country in Spring Texas. It was a Weatherby synthetic chambered in 30-378 Weatherby mag.

I loved that gun, it was a real cannon. I would shoot that thing and everyone at the range wanted to know what it was.

My next 2 rifles were a rem 700 VLS in 22-250 and a Ruger number 1 in 416 rem mag.

Don't have any of them anymore, but I will buy another 30-378 wby mag soon


Nick
 
Scrivener said:
First gun I bought all by myself? A Ruger 10/22 in 1971 from a now-gone gun shop in Norwood Center. Bought bricks of Winchester T-22's from him for something like $8/brick.

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Scrivener, would that shop happen to have been Ortin's Sporting goods? I bought many a gun there, and spent many hours of my precious youth leaning on the counter listening to Tony's stories. Quite a place, and quite a guy.
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I first bought my Ruger MKIII at Collectors in Stoneham. I then bought my Mosin rifle from NET. I then bought my G33 from joeT and my 1991PD from NET.
 
theGringo said:
I bought my son an MKIII for the same occassion! [grin]
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Your son has a GREAT dad!! +1 for being a cool dad.

knuckle dragger said:
Arms Merchant in Natick (now maybe out of business) around 1985 or so.
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Pretty sure that they're gone. I remember he tried to make my AMT Hardballer work better in the late 80's or early 90's... just made it worse. [rolleyes]

packingungal said:
This has been interesting to read all this "history"!!
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Pay close attention to the lessons of history! Note how many people are saying that they wish they still had their first guns.

Sometimes History doesn't repeat itself; sometimes it screams "Why don't you LISTEN to me!!" and lets fly with a club.
 
My dad bought me a replica Brown Bess musket from Dixie Gun Works back in 1987, when I was 16, so I could march with the Minutemen. Still have it and shoot it.

The first gun I bought myself, though, was a SW1911 from Blue Northern last fall. Since then I've been averaging 1.4 guns per month!
 
Service Merchandise in Natick. My guess is that it was 1985. It was a Mossberg 500 "Security Combo". It came with 18" and 24" barrels, heat shield and both standard wood stocks and black plastic pistol grip. That was soon followed by a Charter Arms Explorer AR-7 that I bought at Lew Horton's in Framingham. I still have both though I haven't shot the ar7 for 20 years. My third gun was a 10/22 (still have it) that I bought, when I was in college, at Woolworth's in Ithaca, NY. Times have indeed changed!
 
I bought my G29 from a guy from Pittsfield whom I met off this board. I don't remember his SN, but I have the FA10 somewhere. He sold it to me for the real value and not the inflated price and I've loved the gun ever since. 10mm FTW!!
 
I had a J.C.Higgins .22 while I was growing up and it wasn't until the early 80's I got the handgun bug and bought a Llama 9mm for right around $325. Never heard anything good about Llama handguns but I loved that gun because I was pretty good with it. Sold it for more than I paid for it to buy a Ruger P89 before the AWB became law. Still have the Ruger but wish I had kept the Llama. I could drive tacks with that thing.
 

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